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Derp. Are you texan, by any chance?

The ignorance is strong with this one.

Sure, you may have read that statement somewhere. No, it's not "no grammar". Go and learn, please.

Thing is, it's probably understudied, so its grammar might not be well understood.

Off course people go berserk because i forgot to insert the word "distinguish".

So, care to respond to my post which does not go berserk at that?

Inserting distinguish between dosn't [sic] and even wouldn't have improved the content of your message.

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According to this paper http://wwwstaff.eva.mpg.de/~cschmidt/SW ... ts/Gil.pdf words are unmarked for their role in a sentence but can be put anywhere in a sentence. Besides a didn't say "no grammar" i said pretty close to "no grammar". Off course a language cannot function with no grammmar at all.

Why?

While fixing a grammatical error, it doesn't change the message conveyed.

Also,

Try reading what it says again. If I can have a page number, I can correct what you are almost certainly misreading.

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What did you read it as?

By it, I mean the entire pdf again, as I found nothing that said words could be slapped together willynilly, hence why I asked for a page number.

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Did you read the paper? That paper studies in relatively deep detail one grammatical phenomenon in Riau indonesian. There's no reason to think a priori that this is the only grammatical phenomenon in Riau indonesian, nor does the paper claim anything to that effect.

It is rather telling that for a language with "almost no grammar," someone has managed to write at least 8 papers about its grammar.

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It was detailing the specific aspect of riau indonesian grammar that i said i had heard about. So what is the problem?

How so?

Certaintly certain languages's sounds are harder to pronounce than other's.

It depends on what you mean by "hard". It may well be true that certain sounds tend to be acquired later in the language development of children. (For example, dental fricatives in English.) But all sounds that actually occur in the worlds languages are obviously possible for people to learn during childhood. And when children have learnt all the "harder" sounds in their native language, they pronounce them with the same ease and fluency as the other, "simpler" sounds.

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Yes, but there are languages that doesn't have the "hard sounds" at all, and doesn't allow consonant clusters at all. Those language can clearly be argued to be phonetically similiar than languages which distinguishes more and more difficult sounds, and is allowing of consonant clusters.

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Ok, let's presuppose that certain phonological properties of a language are "objectively" simpler than others. Say that a CV-syllable structure is objectively more simpler than other kinds of syllables, that cardinal vowels are simpler than non-cardinals, pulmonic consonants simpler than non-pulmonic, or whatever you consider to be objectively simple.

The question for you is: why don't all languages evolve towards a more and more simple phonology? Why do people keep on using phonologies that are much more complicated than needed? Why do some languages evolve towards more "complexity", by gaining, for example, more complex syllables due to the loss of unstressed vowels?

(For example: many anglophones drop the schwa in words like history - which results in longer medial consonant cluster. Why should the go around and make their language more complicated than necessary?)

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I should add, that I highly doubt that CV-languages necessarily are easier to learn than others. I've heard from people learning Swahili and other supposedly "easy" languages that it can be quite hard to get all the syllables right - especially if there are many many similar syllables in the same word.

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